Walter Benjamin's Passages
It was in Paris in 1937 that Georges Bataille introduced Pierre Missac to Walter Benjamin. This meeting launched the young French scholar on a half-century of engagement with Benjamin's work that culminated in the writing of Walter Benjamin's Passages.\ Taking a cue from his subject, Missac adopts a form of indirect critique in which independent details examined seemingly in passing emerge over the course of the book as parts of larger patterns of understanding. The interlocked essays move...
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Taking a cue from his subject, Missac adopts a form of indirect critique in which independent details examined seemingly in passing emerge over the course of the book as parts of larger patterns of understanding.
Translator's Introduction1The Title Taken at Its Word12Writing about Benjamin153Homo Scriptor414Joshua's Gesture835Dispositio dialectico-Benjaminiana1256Glass Architecture1477Perspectives on the Atrium173Notes199Index223
